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Rate and Ask Questions on How Do I Videos on the VB Dev Center
03 September 09 05:50 PM

“How Do I” Videos have been an incredibly popular free training for Visual Studio developers for a couple years now. Today MSDN launched a pilot on the Visual Basic Developer Center’s “How Do I” Videos that allows you to rate them and add comments. Sweet! Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 8 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Videos, DevCenter

New “How Do I” Videos Released on Entity Framework & WPF
26 August 09 10:18 AM

Yesterday we released a couple more videos onto the Visual Basic Developer Center on building WPF data-entry forms with Entity Framework: How Do I: Hook Up and Display Validation in WPF using Entity Framework? How Do I: Build a WPF Master-Detail Data Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, Videos, DevCenter, Data, Entity Framework

New “How Do I” Video Series Released
01 July 09 05:28 PM

I just released 3 new videos onto the VB Dev Center starting a new series on how to do WPF data binding with Entity Framework using Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This is a “no frills” WPF series that focuses on data so you won’t see any other tools Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Videos, DevCenter, Entity Framework

How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line
22 May 09 07:46 AM

Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build process that spits out a product at the other end?  Well I sure did and it's not just hitting F5 people ;-). In this interview I sit down with Matt Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Community, Videos, DevCenter, Channel9, VS2010

dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

Channel 9 Interview: No More Underscores in Visual Basic 10!
27 March 09 09:11 AM

I just posted a new Channel 9 interview on a nifty little feature which isn't so little when you look at it from the compiler. In this interview, Tyler Whitney , a developer on the Visual Basic compiler team demonstrates how line termination has changed Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Videos, Channel9, VS2010

Channel 9 Interview: WPF Improvements in VS2010 for Business Apps
24 March 09 09:01 AM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 on WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps . At the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, Italian MVP Alessandro del Sole was so excited about the new WPF features in Visual Studio 2010 that he asked Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, Community, Videos, Channel9, Data, VS2010

Channel 9 Interview: Using the Touchless SDK with Visual Basic
20 March 09 09:31 AM

I just posted a new interview on Channel 9 on using the Touchless SDK. The Touchless SDK enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input. "Touch without touching." It's actually pretty cool! In this interview Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 0 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, Videos, Channel9

Channel 9 Interview: ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals
16 February 09 09:20 AM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET. In this interview he shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. Dmitry shows us how this makes Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, ASP.NET, Videos, Channel9, XML

WPF Drag-Drop Data Binding on dnrTV & WPF Business App Resources
07 January 09 03:03 PM

I'm still catching up from holiday vacation so I just watched my dnrTV episode today that I filmed with Carl when I saw him at DevTeach in Montreal last month. I always enjoy interviewing with Carl. He has a way of making you feel comfortable and making Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Community, Videos, DevCenter, VS2010

New WPF "How Do I" Video on Formatting Data Entry
06 January 09 11:18 AM

We just released a new How Do I Video onto the VB Dev Center on how to format controls on data entry forms using the IValueConverter like I showed in a previous post . The IValueConverter allows you full control over the display of the data as well as Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 3 Comments    

Filed under: WPF, VS2008, Videos, Data

New WPF How Do I Videos Released!
03 November 08 10:50 AM

I posted two more WPF "Forms over Data" videos onto the Developer Center that you should check out. How Do I: Edit Tabular Data in WPF? - learn how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008 Service Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, VS2008, Videos, Data

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Tutorials
30 September 08 01:41 PM

Bill Burrows has released more video tutorials! This time he focuses on the ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature that is available in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .  If you need to build a quick web site against a database then you should definitely check this Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, VS2008, Community, ASP.NET, Videos, DevCenter

Silverlight 2 How Do I Videos
22 September 08 08:26 AM

If you're interested in learning about Silverlight, check out the How Do I videos on Silverlight 2 , which include managed code examples in both Visual Basic and C#. All you need to get started building Silverlight applications is here on the Get Started Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, Silverlight, Videos, DevCenter

More Videos on ASP.NET MVC
27 August 08 09:18 AM

Bill Burrows has released a new set of videos on the ASP .NET MVC Framework - Preview 4 Update which provides an overview of the MVC pattern as well as shows you how to perform adds and updates against a database. If you missed them, you should first Read More...

Postedby Beth Massi | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Visual Basic, Community, ASP.NET, Videos, DevCenter